Why major in philosophy?
Philosophy is worth studying not because you learn facts that can be put to any particular purpose, bur rather because the study of philosophy is valuable in itself. But this does not mean that philosophically trained minds cannot be put to use! For example, according to a study reported in the Chronicle of Higher Education, philosophy majors score 8.7% better on the LSAT, 11% better on the GMAT, 17% better on the verbal section of the GRE, and 4.6% better on the quantitative section of the GRE, than other majors do. (Philosophy, biology, chemistry, and mathematics are the only majors who score above the average on all four tests.) Philosophy majors have among the highest employment rates after graduation: 98.9%.